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  The monthly newsletter Amazon Science recently published an article on how they are working to eliminate barcodes from their distribution centers. The Thomas Industry Update suggests this [...]

A thermal printing company requested our assistance with a mysterious problem—barcodes that intermittently grade well and poorly. They had a trusted verifier but their confidence was shaken. Even [...]

Use of DPM barcodes is on the rise. For the unfamiliar, DPM is Direct Part Marking. It is used in applications where a label or tag won’t work. For example, an engine block or subassembly like an [...]

Different people will read this headline and draw different conclusions about what it means. I’ll cut to the chase. While it is sometimes possible to tweak verifier settings and improve the ISO [...]

As a barcode quality and compliance test lab, we get a lot of questions from callers who are struggling to understand the verification report. We have noticed that those questions seem to change [...]

Just back from Label Expo 2022 in Chicago. It was wonderful, reconnecting with barcode testing and verifier clients, many of whom we have worked with for years and yet never met in person. Trade [...]

It seems like a whole new world out there, so much has changed, and quickly.  Pandemic, overwhelmed supply chains, international conflict, inflation–a perfect storm of uncertainty that has [...]

As a barcode test lab, we tend to focus on more exotic or subtle mistakes we encounter. However, the obvious mistakes, maybe less interesting, occur surprisingly often. Here are some we have seen [...]

Examining the entire process of getting a high performance barcode on a label or package, there are seven critical steps where mistakes should be avoided. Each step is critically important. [...]

There are two kinds of barcode mysteries. Both are bad. one is worse. BAD One kind of bad barcode is the one that does not scan at all. Like the crossword puzzle in the airline magazine, the [...]